{"title":"Making Historicity: Paleontology and the Proximity of the Past in Germany, 1775-1825.","authors":"Patrick Anthony","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes the making of a novel consciousness of historicity in Germany around 1800, one that regarded mountains as vaults of a shared and palpable past. Revisiting a paleontological debate about the origin of large mammal bones found in caves, it reads the science of Johann Christian Rosenmüller (1771-1820) as a social and political accomplishment. By attributing the fossils to an indigenous \"cave bear,\" and communicating an elite scientific debate to a lay audience, Rosenmüller presented an account of Germany's primordial past that fed seamlessly into its present, nurturing an idea of nationhood grounded in the (sub)soil.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 2","pages":"231-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38964500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilingual Foreign Affairs: Translation and Diplomatic Agency in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm.","authors":"Sophie Holm","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The new diplomatic history embraces an interest in the role of language in early modern diplomacy, especially in transcultural contexts. This article addresses the need for translation in inter-European relations by focusing on the connections between translation and diplomacy in mid-eighteenth century Stockholm. It shows that practices of translation had a real effect on who could engage in diplomacy. Moreover, through a focus on a less formal diplomatic communication, it highlights the multilingualism and absence of a lingua franca during an era of presumed francophonia in Europe, thus nuancing the idea of a singular European diplomatic culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 3","pages":"469-483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39195123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Question of Political Correctness: Translating Friendship across Time and Space.","authors":"Birgit Tremml-Werner","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article explores translation processes behind diplomatic negotiations between Japan and the Spanish overseas empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. It applies a multi-layered approach that integrates the translations of original diplomatic documents with their re-translation as historiographical source compilations in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Analyzing the different connotations and nuances of friendship as a diplomatic concept, it highlights the impact of translation, both linguistic and cultural, as well as the strategies behind terminological choices, on intercultural encounters.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 3","pages":"503-520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39195125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz's Dante.","authors":"Nicholas Heron","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article aims to clarify the stakes of the reading of Dante that concludes Ernst Kantorowicz's 1957 book The King's Two Bodies. It does so by reconstructing the relevant argumentative contexts for appraising it, starting from the account of the sovereign individual that Kantorowicz developed in his 1940s lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley. It argues that, for Kantorowicz, Dante's articulation of an exclusively human dignity constitutes a decisive chapter in the larger genealogy of the \"superman\" idea he begins to trace in that forum.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 3","pages":"427-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39195121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not Six Million nor Thirty Thousand: From \"Holocaust Revisionism\" to \"State Terrorism\" Denial in Argentina, 1945-2016.","authors":"Matías Grinchpun","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In early 2016, Dario Lopérfido— then Buenos Aires city’s minister of culture— made headlines when he claimed that “ there were not thirty thousand desaparecidos (dis appeared) in Argentina.”1 This blunt statement sparked controversy, as many perceived it as an attempt to minimize the brutality and extent of the repressive plan undertaken by the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (Pro cess of National Reor ga ni za tion, 1976–83). It did not stand alone, for this claim was also championed by apologists of the Armed Forces such as denouncer of socalled “terrorists” Cecilia Pando; selfproclaimed “revisionists” like Nicolás Márquez, and Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (CELTyV) cofounder Victoria Villaroel.2 All shared an ethos, presenting themselves as defenders of “historical truth,” “complete memory,” and “silenced victims” against “official","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 1","pages":"153-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25367851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The \"Urbild\" of \"Einbildung\": The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics.","authors":"Julian Johannes Koch","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article outlines what is arguably the uniquely German trajectory of the imagination, focusing on the relation between the imagination and \"Urbild\" in eighteenth-century German aesthetics, particularly in Kant and Schelling. I contend that shared German roots of the \"Einbildung\" (imagination) and \"Urbild\" (archetype) in \"Bild\" led German aesthetic thinkers to conceive of the imagination much more in (Neo-)Platonic terms. This article therefore argues that there is a perceptible rift in how the imagination is conceived in eighteenth-century discourse which follows a linguistic fault line between the Latin-origin \"imagination\" and the German \"Einbildung.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 4","pages":"569-591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39673330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Character and the Formation of the State: Reconsidering Machiavelli and Polybius 6.","authors":"Jeffrey Dymond","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to contribute to a growing debate over the sources of a crucial opening chapter in Machiavelli’s Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (1517)— a chapter widely regarded as foundational for the politi cal theory developed in the book. Until recently, commentators have largely agreed that Book 6 of Polybius’s Histories is the principal source for the account of the formation of the state found in Discorsi 1.2, offering as evidence Machiavelli’s discussion of the mixed constitution and the cycle of constitutions (anacyclosis) that supports it.1 But, over the last de cade,","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 1","pages":"29-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25367369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Race Was Removed from Racism: Per Engdahl, the Networks that Saved Fascism and the Making of the Concept of Ethnopluralism.","authors":"Elisabeth Åsbrink","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"However false, the idea that victory over Germany in 1945 was synonymous with victory over the ideologies behind the war— Nazism and Jewhatred— has lingered on in media narratives and the collective consciousness. Alongside new moral codes that emerged in the years following the peace— such as the legitimation of democracy, the Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the prevalent slogan “Never Again”— ideologies of hatred developed across complex international networks. With par tic u lar attention to Sweden, in this article I will trace how personal and intellectual networks revived Nazi ideas using new words, such as culture, identity, and enthnopluralism. “Swedish Fascism— Why Bother?” asked historian Lena Berggren in 2002, noting that the influence of interwar fascism had been ignored by scholars because the po liti cal ideology had indisputably failed in Swedish elections.1 In a notable 1980 article, Bernt Hagtvet focused on vari ous groups (not the ideas) and their fracturing,2 but despite the historian Heléne","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 1","pages":"133-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25367379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anxieties of Transmission: Rabbinic Responsa and Early Modern \"Print Culture\".","authors":"Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Talmud states: \"God precedes afflictions with their remedy.\" But what if that remedy exacerbates the affliction? Early modern Jewish culture faced precisely this dilemma: A growing scholarly anxiety-transmitting and mastering crucial legal texts-was preceded by its solution, print. Print, however, simultaneously exacerbated the affliction. My article analyzes this dynamic's development in Jewish scholarly culture around the printing of rabbinic responsa in the mid-sixteenth century. Across early modern Europe, scholars grappled with simultaneously promising and overwhelming prospects of expanding textual corpora. This study illuminates shared dynamics of early modern knowledge, suggesting new approaches to print culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 3","pages":"377-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39195119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation in Action: Global Intellectual History and Early Modern Diplomacy.","authors":"Lisa Hellman, Birgit Tremml-Werner","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intellectual and diplomatic history have to a surprising degree evolved as separate historiographies, but they can be combined through a theme crucial to both: translation. Translation enabled intercultural negotiation but could also bring about inaccuracies, misunderstandings, or consciously skewed representations. This issue argues that a multitude of actors can be understood as \"translators,\" that the power relations between types of actors, languages, and forms of communication was dramatically asymmetrical, and that gaps between representation and reality had real and dramatic political effects. On-the-ground translation practices thus illustrate how the international political system long rested on local developments and global encounters.</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"82 3","pages":"453-467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jhi.2021.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39195122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}